The collection was donated to the Foundation in 2020 by his son Manolis. It is estimated to contain about 15,000 items. It includes Greek literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, literary collections, anthologies, studies, translations, many first editions, as well as several periodicals of the same era. Greek pamphlets and other Greek publications of the 19th century form an important section, while a large number of the items bear handwritten notes or dedications.
The library of Professor Giorgos P. Savvidis
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Biography
Giorgos Panou Savvidis (1929-1995) was a philologist and academic, as well as an important personality of Greek letters of the twentieth century. He began his studies at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Athens and continued them at King’s College, at Cambridge University and at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where he was awarded a doctorate in philology in 1966, with the thesis “The Cavafy editions (1891-1932)”. He worked as a professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and as a permanent visiting professor at the Giorgos Seferis Chair of Neo-Hellenic Studies at Harvard University. His scholarly publications began in 1951. He wrote for many publications (mainly the newspapers “To Vima” and “Ta Nea”). Among his most notable scholarly contributions were the editions of poems by Seferis, Cavafy, Karyotakis, Sikelianos, Balaoritis, Caesarios Daponte and others. Together with C. Th. Dimaras he founded the Study Center of New Hellenism for the research and promotion of modern Greek literature.